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Confronting plastic pollution to protect environmental and public health

PLoS Biology 2021 25 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Liza Gross, Judith Enck

Summary

This collection of expert commentaries assessed critical challenges in microplastic science and policy, covering detection methods, toxicological dose-response relationships, risk assessment frameworks, and the gap between scientific evidence and regulatory action, concluding that urgent method standardization is needed.

Body Systems

A new collection of evidence-based commentaries explores critical challenges facing scientists and policymakers working to address the potential environmental and health harms of microplastics. The commentaries reveal a pressing need to develop robust methods to detect, evaluate, and mitigate the impacts of this emerging contaminant, most recently found in human placentas.

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